America is the spiritual cradle of the police drama, so you’d have thought they’d have enough of their own without copping on to one of ours. But now, long after Helen Mirren’s Jane Tennison arrested her last, we have Prime Suspect USA (Universal). And what a curious offspring it is.

Relocated to New York, the now rechristened Jane Timoney is a pushy detective doing battle with a squad of sexist male officers convinced she must have slept her way into the job. So far, so Prime Suspect-ish, with a distinct echo in the scene where Jane uses a fellow officer’s fatal heart attack to fast-forward her ambitions. But that’s pretty much where the two Prime Suspects part company.

Where the original played the long game, building tension over a case, its cousin is pretty much your standard police procedural, wrapping up its first case quicker than you could say ‘you’re nicked’. Which left plenty of time to sketch in Jane’s character – and that’s where Prime Suspect USA came unstuck.

Helen Mirren’s Jane Tennison was a difficult, contrary individual, a workaholic with a stuffed up personal life who provoked strong reactions. But we still liked her. Maria Bello’s Jane Timoney isn’t strong, she’s just a know-it-all with a line in smart arse one-liners. On this evidence, Prime Suspect USA has entirely missed the point.